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#NewWorldReport: Climate change and drought. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

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🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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#NewWorldReport: Climate change and drought. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/chile-ex-president-sebastianpinera-dies-helicopter-crash-local-media-says-2024-02-06/


Alacama Desert, Chile

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0:00.0

Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. I'm John Bess with Professor Aven Ellis of the US Army War College, the New World Report.

0:29.5

We've mentioned the Chile wildfires with a very large death rate right now, still counting. the There's drought behind these wildfires and there's drought in the Amazon so that you can

0:46.3

see photographs taken by drones of a channel empty with the boats that were there sitting

0:52.4

on the bottom all the way up as far as you can see from the drone shot and then there we've already reported on the drought in in Panama disrupting traffic, global economy, because the containerships have to

1:09.2

offload on one side and pick it up on the other.

1:11.9

They can't go through with their full load.

1:14.4

And then we have the wildfires that have been reported these last years in the west, and now we

1:19.8

have these what are called atmospheric river striking Southern California so that

1:24.7

Beverly Hills itself is at risk of sliding into the mud piles. All of that

1:29.9

it's an only new year and that comes now and again and we have severe storms.

1:35.0

There's only so much water in the atmosphere and it has to go somewhere.

1:38.0

Sometimes it gangs up.

1:40.0

However, is it drought, is it climate change? This isn't something for the long term, this is for now.

1:47.0

And Professor, we have a couple of minutes here.

1:50.0

Are the people of the Americas, the leadership, are they focusing on these incidents, the

1:56.4

wildfires, the drought, the overwhelming breakdown in infrastructure that follows that. Are they focused on this as

2:04.4

something we need to mitigate right now or are they looking for the long term? The

2:09.6

pledges that are made about greenhouse gases. How are they approaching it?

2:13.3

We have a couple of minutes.

2:15.4

Well, John, there's been some interesting articles

2:17.5

and studies done on this.

2:18.8

To what degree do people focus on individual events

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